Following Jesus Comes First - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon
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- Опубликовано: 24 июн 2022
- Friends, I’m going to be blunt with you: today’s Gospel is really challenging. It cuts right to the heart of the ethical implications of the Gospel. There's something of a “be all, end all” quality about Jesus, something of an either/or. As he says, “Whoever is not with me is against me.” What follows from this is what I call the principle of detachment and clarification of motives. If Jesus is unambiguously the center of your life, then everything else has to find its place in relation to him. If the good things of the world become more important than following him, then something has gone off-kilter.
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Sometimes we get impatient. We think we’re missing out, we’re falling behind. But I’ve learned that what belongs to you is not going to go to anyone else. What has your name on it will come to you. Instead of trying to force things, relax and stay in peace. God is ordering your steps. He’s already lined up what you need to fulfill your destiny. If it hasn’t happened yet, it wasn’t the right time. If the door closed, something better is going to open up.
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Amen to your comment🙏🏻. At 73 I’ve finally learned I don’t have to fix it. At peace with all the blessings I have and they are many. Thank you Jesus and I love you with all my heart.
in EC
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I love it!Amen
Thank you Bishop Barron. You always have a way of bringing me back to Christ.
So much anger and vengeance in the world today. I keep finding myself calling for eyes in place of eyes that I am failing to love my enemies. Russians and Ukrainians, Palestinians and Israelis, all deserve equal love.
That is the way I am leaving right now I'm homeless I say my rosary and and I had a great job now my family does not talk to me my friends do not talk to me so I give everything to my father Jesus and I asked him to give me Graces and to ask Archangel Michael to protect me at night and the daytime against Satan
DEUS VULT !! ☦️
Ray, I will say a decade of my rosary for you today. Glory be to God for your beautiful faith.
God will bless you if you can continue to commit
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Sure. God WINS too☆
Ray García, just never abandon prayer. All will be well☆
As a widow I have found myself closer to God than ever before. My husband and my family were my center but as I get older I realize that God needs to be my center I offer my prayers and my thankfulness for all He has done for me to Him everyday. I rekey on God and his saints for all the days I have left. He has become my center He has always been there for me but it is this time in my life It has become my center for all the days I have left. I pray I could be an example for those who know me. Praise be to God
*"Salvation is FREE, but discipleship costs EVERYTHING we have."* - BILLY GRAHAM
TY. That hits the proverbial “nail on the head”!
PTL, ALLELUYAAAA !
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Your presence is appreciated Christine☆ Stay blessed☆
@@raulbaquero5081 Praise the Lord Raul☆ Thank you and Big God Bless☆
Matthew 6:5 'And when you pray you are not to be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synogogues and in the corners of the streets that they may been seen by men.' I see you..
With all humility I pray that God continuously blesses Bishop Barron and Word on Fire ministries 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 they have indeed blessed me.
"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." - Alfred Tennyson
Ron Nestman,
Your intervention is a great contribution, much needed as well and I would think as hugely appropriate a gesture and deed☆ May you be blessed abundantly☆
My family doesn’t follow Jesus, and doesn’t respect me for my faith - though they certainly seek out my clear-thinking when it suits them. Thank you Bishop for reminding me that attachment to them is NOT the center of my life.
Oh my God, what an inspiring homily. Thank you Bishop Barron. This homily has led me to think about my priorities in life. Jesus first, all the rest will follow.
How could this wisdom come from 2000 years ago if not from God?
Brother, did you really just take the name of the Lord thy God in vain?
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Jesus' hands remained on the plow all the way to the cross. He never looked back. Great teaching.
I don’t think I got “nervous” listening to this sermon. I got that Jesus wasn’t saying so much follow “me” as a human man or some cult figure. Jesus is saying adhere to my teachings first in your life. Put what I have told you first. I am not leading you astray, I am leading you toward a path of righteousness. Do this and you will have more purpose, more meaning, more happiness, more joy, more love, more peace than you’ve ever known. Thank you, Bishop Barron, for helping me (us) to see and absorb this message. Truly powerful. Your sermon has me focused. Thank you and God bless you.
Last night I was furious with some family members. I vented my rage instead of doing my regular nightly prayers. That rage was necessary for me to feel but to follow Christ I must turn the other cheek and the plow I must set my hand to is “love your neighbour as yourself”. My rage is legitimate and if I am to follow Christ I must give the rage to the Lord. The rage was my cross I am to take up and leave these family issues to. Christ. I need to follow Christ as the one necessary thing. I have some cleansing to do so I may stop looking back and follow Christ where my joy resides.
Word. I choose Jesus above everything.
Thank God for strength!!!!
Conversion to Catholicism is challenging….I’m learning to call on Jesus through Mother Mary
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" TO THE HEART OF JESUS TROUHT THE HEART OF MARY IMMACULATE !!" 🙏👍😇
I'm not Catholic but I was blessed by this word. May God bless you Bishop Barron ♥️ 🙏
Thank you, Bishop Barron for one more great homily. Deep, indeed, and nourishing. I also left my country, family, and possessions to follow Jesus.
You are very good at the 15 minute talk. I am surprised how much wisdom you can fit in. Thank you for this message. It is true for me. I need to change .
From now on, this’ll be where you’re from
Let the dead bury the dead. Your time will come
Dylan!
Once again, a thoughtful, concise explanation of the Gospel reading. Thank you, Bishop Barron for increasing my understanding so I can better meet the needs of our Lord.
“Better meet the needs of our Lord” is wrong. Our Lord does not need us, we need Him.
Brilliant! Bishop Barron nails it again, identifying precisely where contempoary culture is going wrong in its privileging of intersectional idenitity over the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When I enter my Catholic church and dip my hand in holy water to begin my Mass, all other identities fade away and are subsumed under my Catholic identity. We are all in communion i.e. one under The Lord. I also love that phrase, "a smorgasbord of religious options", what I call "supermarket religion" where you ick the bits you like and reject the bits that don't fit your lifestyle. Sorry, but with Jesus you are all in or you are not in.
Be catholic in all areas of life not just when one enters the church for mass. Live out ones baptismal promises
@@gogogolyra1340 Precisely so. Which, of course, is why we believe in the Real Presence of the Eucharist. We receive Christ in Communion and then take Him with us into the world.
I’m so happy I’m not religious, subject to the pettiness of a celestial dictatorship that requires my constant obedience. Life without Jesus is beautiful, happy and free! :)
Now I know “he set his face to Jerusalem” means. Thank you Father Barron
"There's an either/or quality to Jesus, and there's an either/or quality to Christian discipleship." *- Bishop Robert Barron*
*Kierkegaard intensifies*
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Do appreciate your valuable Presence☆ Stay blessed as always☆
@Rory C. A. Scanlon
Thank you for being here☆ Stay blessed as always☆
That’s called an autocracy, exactly what the church tried to subject humanity to for nearly two millenia. Jesus doesn’t exist and if he did he could kiss my a..
Amen
Thank your Sermon applies to me on this very day. Today i pick up and leave everything behind to take my wife to Arizona for potential healing. Leaving all my comforts and comfort zone to go on a journey to a far away destination that i am totally unfamiliar with for several months. I am afraid but i know that my Lord is sending me on this path. Thank you again and God bless you.
Good bless you on this journey
Thanks so much Bishop Barron for the deep insights on the Gospel text. You've led me to examine my life and the kind of disciple of Jesus I am.
Interesting: in the Bible, God consistently chooses the youngest of the family, the poor, the humble, the « losers » to fulfil his plans. Very often, they’re full of doubts, but eventually they follow their call. Then Jesus comes, invites everyone who hears him to follow him, and meets enthusiasm as well as rejection - but the old rule still holds good: if you choose to follow him, you must still be ready to lose everything.
It’s tough, but at the same time it’s good to remember that there’s something to be said for being what this world calls a « loser ».
Thank you Bishop!
Great message Bishop Barron !! I agree that we all should let go of worldly goods and never take your hands off the plow and look back and always follow Jesus. Jesus is my number one priority. Without Him I could do nothing or be nothing. God Bless you Bishop Barron !!
In the 1960’s I was offered a job by an Archbishop in the Vatican as a translator. I was a laywoman. I had beel ill and was convalescing, but if I had not agreed immediately the offer would not stay open. The same with another girl, Belgian, who asked if she could first make a trip to see her father in Belgium. I was impressed, and left my health in the hands of the Lord. That is how I learned this particular lesson of “leave the dead to bury the dead”. +
Following Jesus is really not what I want, but what you want,and we usually know what that is, but before we act on we count the cost,and find Jesus will to costly so we change it to something less costly.
Amazing, thx you & congratulations
Very Timely
Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me and before me. Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore. Congratulations Bishop Barron on your new assignment and another enjoyable sermon. You are a gift. In baseball terms, listening to you is like watching a triple play executed in one inning with a grandslam in the next and a come from behind 5 run inning with a walk off home run on a sunny warm summer afternoon. God bless
Which army are you going to join? As Bishop Barron has said before, quoting Bob Dylan, "You've got to serve somebody, "Maybe its
the Devil and maybe its the Lord... but you have to Serve Somebody..." Serving Jesus takes us out of our Comfort Zone. Good, maybe
we got too comfortable...
Jesus emptied himself till death on the cross. True God and True Man. Amen
God Bless you Bishop Barron 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
As always,food for the soul , thank you and God bless you Bishop Barron
Bishop Barron this is one of the best most meaningful Sunday Sermons ever. So basic yet everything!
Jesus...the way✝️💜
Bishop Barron goes deep.
God bless Bishop Barron's homilies
Oh, wretched man am I. Thanks be to Jesus my Savior my LORD.
@@bang8419 aye aye. In. Christ
Amazing sermon may God continue to guide you to evangelist people.
Such a clear explanation.thank you Bishop
Beautiful message look to Jesus and don’t look back, the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the gift of praying tongues makes jesus much more real to me that makes it easier to follow jesus and leave sin and riches and anything else behind
Thank you Bishop Barron, may GOD bless you, and protect you, and keep you safe always. GOD bless you. Stay safe. ➕❤
Thank you Bishop Barron. So important what you shared with us.
Thanks!!!!
God bless you Bishop, you are a Gift to the Church. We love you 😘🙏
Bishop, thank you for being blunt and honest with us. Thank you for teaching us how to understand how to be authentic disciples of Jesus Christ. I look forward to all the insights you will gain in your new ministry.
Powerful and so direct.
The scripture about the Son of Man having no where to lay His head has helped me to keep coming back to the person of Christ and not merely religion or church, which is so commonly held up as an idol for many religious.
Amen, Bishop your gospel of Christ gives constant hope for inner peace in this troubled world.
Thank you.
This reminds me that God is lord of all my life not just part of it. He calls me to stand up and speak to Gods law and alignment of my whole life to it.
Thank you Father.
God, come to my assistance. Lord, make haste to help me.
Fight modernism with the sword of truth. Serve Jesus Christ!
" SURSUM CORDA !!! "
You put the cloudiness of this gospel so succinctly- what I preach comes first - love thy enemies. Then come even closer at us with the personal comfort question wow!
Just listening to you sets me right. Thanks you.
The one thing necessary or nothing - giving Christ, our Lord, our all or we've got nothing. Bless you, Bishop Bob. 😇
I am still having trouble with not burying my father ! Why would Jesus ask that? I get Jesus wants us totally!
Outstanding sermon and the answer to all of society’s problems!
This is a blessed video. God bless you!
Awesome!!!
You're a blessing. May God continue to bless you!🙏
Thank you Bp Barron for stating the basic truth !”Jesus is central “!, there is no other 🙏
Very well explained Bishop...what Jesus wants to tell us..May God richly bless you
Bishop Baron your interpretation & application of The Word to our daily lives, is appreciated….. your blatant reminders of the painful truths are indeed discomforting however, the question often arises: Are we ready to obey or do we always make excuses & rationalise our constant need to procrastinate when we are confronted with a call to obedience?
Come oh Holy Spirit enlighten & guide us not to hesitate… to trust in the Lord’s Word & blessed assurance of HIS unconditional love🙏🏽👼🏽
If you follow Him , if He is the Center of your life, you’re going on the cross. Period. He is center to my life , but I’m mad at Him , so confused. What He permits I’ll never understand. I love Him always and I love you .
I get you Anne.
Hanna van der Berg thanks …
This homily is beautiful, the road and outcome in fulfillment of the promise. But your life has been behind a wall, looking out the window and providing beautiful sermons based on the Bible and your "quotes" reference library. All of which I try to walk, according to Jesus. But if you have never truly struggled or subjected to so much out of your control with no fall back - it becomes challenging. My faith and foolish optimistic approach has propelled me humbly and thankfully to a place where I try to help others - who have suffered, i.e. Mother Theresa as well. Not comparing, but a road traveled. Your "moves" financed and with comfort do not constitute a challenge, nor holding your dog during shots. A great place behind the wall and looking out the window, but try if you can to relate to real challenges that everyday people are experiencing- without judgment. Good night and God bless....GNGB
Thank you and God Bless Bishop Barron!
Jesus, first, last and always! A daily choice for “…hearing His voice and following…”! Perhaps a move from sunny California to cold Minnesota…😉❣️ A lifetime of many ‘change of address cards’…Always disruptive, usually challenging…new faces, places, etc. GO WITH GOD, dear Bishop…HE GOES BEFORE YOU‼️
So powerful, Thank you
real real good one
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I needed to hear this message today, and yesterday when I went to Mass, and a few days ago when I first saw this week's readings. 🙏 Thank you.
Finally, clarification of what Jesus is trying to tell us through these troubling words. Thank you Bishop Barron for your insight and skill with informing us of truths we need help in understanding. ❤
The interesting fact is Jesus asks us to do the inevitable and be conscious about it. I love the old adage “you can’t take it with you,” or “I’ll be the richest man in the cemetery,” etc. Nothing is more important in this life except gaining access to His kingdom. Not easy at all going about the business of doing just that is it dear ones. Blessings to you Bishop Barron and to the whole world!
I think the song "Like A Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan is really relevant to the Gospel today. Thank you Bishop Barron for such a great sermon.
And Bishop Barron has always been a fan of Bob Dylan 😊
These homilies are wonderful and I'm glad to have discovered Bishop Barron's channel.
Thank you and God bless ♥️✝️
This is what Jesus meant when he said THE most important commandment is to Love the Lord, your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength.
If your read all of the 10 Commandments, they all say this same thing.
Example, Thou shall not murder: Love God instead of loving your own anger to the point of allowing yourself to entertain thoughts of murder. It’s why anger is one of the deadly sins. If we ask God to take our anger because we are so focused on loving Him, we will never commit murder.
Wow! I am learning more each time! Thank you Bishop!
"It might mean you live outside." There's a lot of beautiful things that you said Bishop, that made an impact. I do, indeed have to follow Jesus Christ in order to get to Heaven when I die, but also now, so that I can live the life that He is calling me to live.
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Yes
This Gospel is so powerful because we are called to give everything to Jesus. We need this more than ever. Learn your Faith in order to defend it! Remember you cannot be Catholic and pro-abortion. Look at these politicians like Joe Biden that claim to follow Jesus. They follow power and leave nothing behind.
Brilliant as always. I felt a tingle when he said ‘are you getting nervous’.
I love the “scouring” analogy. We have to be completely free from all detachments in order to enter the kingdom of God.
Thank you Bishop for once again laying down the challenge for us in such a beautiful way 🙏🏽
Slight correction: free from our attachments not detachments. I know what you mean. All is good.
Thank you Bishop now I have a better understanding of the three replies from Jesus and how important that God has sent Jesus to die for our sin and victory to all who follow Jesus with love peace and harmony.
WOW! That was amazing
God bless your ministry Bishop. Shalom from The Gambia.
Amen😇🦋🙏🏻⭐️🌈🌈
It is just such a great grace listening to your homilies. You have given me some light in order to preach Jesus us our Lord. God bless you
God bless you, Bishop✝️
Thankyou Bishop Barron for your inspiring Homily. May God continue to bless you always.
Jesus isn't saying you need to abandon your father. Or that you need to abandon your family. He is saying you need to put him, God, in the central context of Him.
I keep you in prayer Bishop B.
Amen! Sheesh. Bishop Barron really knows how to hit it home 🏡
It seems, this is one of His Excellence's best homilies. For anyone who is challenged to make a long awaited change, these challenging messages of Jesus, which might seem onerous, speak to a harsh wisdom. Yet, it is fitting to us in the 21st century.
Who has never seen an situation where it is known in advance what sacrifices would be required like leaving an aging grandparent to go to college, serve in the military or join the Catholic Missionaries, the Peace Corps, work over-seas or emigrate. Or how many people accepted in-house jobs during the pandemic knowing the risks to themselves and others might far outweigh the benefits. What sacrifices have many parents made that might take them away from their children in order to get or keep the job that supports the family..
They are trusting that their decisions serve the greater good.
Following Our Lord, serves the greatest good, the evangelism of others. One knows that it is undeniably one's calling when he or she understands that doing God's will is of paramount importance. Unlike an obsession or an inordinate compulsion, it becomes one's only source of true joy because Our God is a jealous God. He is jealous for our love of Him alone.
This is such an emphatic and powerful sermon... thank you so much Bishop!
Again thank you dear Bishop Barron. Your homily brings me to tears, reminding me of Jesus love and mercy. He comes first always before comfort.. God bless you.
Fantastic, as usual 👏, thank you Bishop Barron.
Good morning bishop Barron!
Thank you for all videos. They help get through hard times.
Thank you Bishop Barron for this very challenging and confronting homily! Thank you also for explaining this Scripture passage that hits home right to the heart, and is helping me to question and reflect about my discipleship. Time for me to go and pray to the Lord!
Bishop Barron..감사합니다. 아멘